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Rangers have spent this week being linked to some crazy, yet fantastic sounding transfers in the press. Francesco Totti anyone? What about Alessandro Del Perio?

Neither seem particulary likely and both stories take me back to the heady days of the nineties when we were linked with moves for Paul Gascoinge and Roberto Baggio.

Whilst it is unthinkable that the likes of Totti and Del Perio will be strutting their stuff at Loftus Road anytime soon it does show what the benefits of having a high profile owner in place can do for us.

People are actually talking about us now, in Italy they even followed our match against Norwich, simply because of Briatore’s involvement. Suddenly QPR are interesting.

For years fans have bemoaned the clubs lack of decent PR, now we have a man at the helm who is giving us headlines for the right reasons.

Whilst the likes of Italian superstars in Hoops maybe a pipe dream for now, it’s making the world of football sit up and take notice of this little West London club and that cant be a bad thing.

Welcome to a new season on QPRnet.com and a belated official welcome to our new blog site that has been up running for the last few weeks.

As you will have noticed we totally revamped the site this summer, it’s now complete and hopefully will be good enough to see us through a few seasons now. The new design has enabled us to incorporate most of our current features and give us the flexibility to add more that we have planned as we go forward.

Our interviews will continue to be a key feature of the site, the Tony Thorpe interview has already been online and we have three more in the pipeline over the next few weeks with some very familiar names. More on that nearer the time.

The fixtures wallpaper proved popular last season and this will be back for the coming campaign with the first one available in the first week of August plus we’ll obviously have match reports from all the pre-season games and the usual service once the season gets going proper.

We’re resting the predict-R-thon for now but Fantasy Rangers will return for a sixth season very soon (or at least as soon as we sign a bloody goalkeeper!)

We have three bloggers signed up for this section but we are happy to take on more so if anyone fancies regularly posting their thoughts and opinions over the course of the season drop me an email and we’ll set it up.

As for my blog, I’m aiming to post up my experiences following Rangers over the course of the season, the emotions we go through, the funny moments we come across and all about the dodgy away experiences we will no doubt enjoy/endure!

I’ll also keep you up to date with any site news and changes as we go forward so if you have any comments, suggestions or questions please feel free to post them below and I’ll answer them in the next blog.

There’s nothing like a few weeks without football to make you yearn for the simple things in life. It’s actually got quite pathetic how much I’ve longed to go back to Loftus Road so I was pretty excited by the time Sunday rolled around.

Personally I prefer trawling round the little clubs that you generally face this time of year so I’m a little disappointed there isn’t much of that to enjoy this year. I find it much more enjoyable to yomp up to someone like Worcester than face “giants” like Celtic and Fulham at home but that’s what we’ve got this year.

However it is always comforting to see nothing has changed at Loftus Road since the last game although I must say in the Upper Loft literally nothing had changed! The floor was still covered in fag butts and litter which I guess had been there all summer. There was even a little deposit left from Jude the Stadium Cat which looked big enough to have actually come from the one on the pitch! Would it have killed anyone to run a broom round?

I know most people don’t give two hoots about friendlies but I love pre-season. The game itself was a bit of a let down but it had everything I’ve grown to love about this time of year, new players, surprising trialists and plenty of confused fans trying to suss out who was who!

Most of all though I love the relaxed optimism that you feel. A new season stretches in front of you, there are new teams to face, new grounds to visit, and the whole campaign is filled with possibilities. Plus you know that there are months and months to go before your dreams are cruelly shattered once again. See you all at Wycombe!

Feel free to post any comments or questions below and I’ll pick up on them on the next blog.